Constitutional History of FranceRand, McNally, 1890 - 424 стор. |
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Сторінка 401 - ART. 6. The President of the Republic communicates with the Chambers by messages, which are read from the tribune by a Minister. The Ministers have entrance to both Chambers, and must be heard when they request it. They may be represented, for the discussion of a specific bill, by commissioners designated by decree of the President of the Republic.
Сторінка 76 - It frequently happened before the Revolution that a Parliament issued a warrant against a public officer who had committed an offence, and sometimes the proceedings were stopped by the authority of the Crown, which enforced compliance with its absolute and despotic will. It is painful to perceive how much lower we are sunk than our forefathers, since we allow things to pass under the color of justice and the sanction of the law which violence alone could impose upon them.
Сторінка 76 - ... political causes. But when I told them that the Conseil d'Etat was not a judicial body, in the common sense of the term, but an administrative council composed of men dependent on the Crown, so that the king, after having ordered one of his servants, called a Prefect, to commit an injustice, has the power of commanding another of his servants, called a Councillor of State, to prevent the former from being punished ; when I demonstrated to them that the citizen who...
Сторінка 245 - Reports, it may (at any rate for our present purpose) be best described, as that portion of French law which determines, (i.) the position and liabilities of all state officials, and (ii.) the civil rights and liabilities of private individuals in their dealings with officials as representatives of the state, and (iii.) the procedure by which these rights and liabilities are enforced.
Сторінка 278 - WE SWEAR to be for ever faithful to the nation, to the law, and to the King; to maintain with all our power the constitution decreed by the National Assembly, and accepted by the King ; and to remain united to all Frenchmen by indissoluble ties of fraternity.
Сторінка 399 - The ministers as a body are responsible to the Chambers for the general policy of the Government, and individually for their personal acts.
Сторінка 307 - ... holds possession of its territory. OF THE GUARANTY OF RIGHTS. 122. The Constitution guarantees to all Frenchmen equality, liberty, security, property, the public debt, free exercise of religion, general instruction, public assistance, absolute liberty of the press, the right of petition, the right to hold popular assemblies, and the enjoyment of all the rights of man.
Сторінка 46 - ... the existence of a Supreme Being, and the immortality of the soul.
Сторінка 397 - French citizen at least forty years of age, and in the enjoyment of civil and political rights. ART. 4. The senators of the departments and of the colonies shall be elected by an absolute majority and by...
Сторінка 398 - ... the colonies shall be elected for nine years and renewable by thirds every three years. At the beginning of the first session the departments shall be divided into three series containing each an equal number of senators. It shall be determined by lot which series shall be renewed at the expiration of the first and second triennial periods.